For me, I’m completely sucked in anytime I accidentally stumble on A League of Their Ownwhile flipping channels. Yes, watching Tom Hanks and Geena Davis scratch out wins on the ball diamond always hooks me like a fish ’til the credits roll.

See, glue movies are any movie you can’t stop watching whenever you see them on TV.

Nope, don’t matter how many times you’ve seen ’em, don’t matter if you own ’em already — just forget the laundry, skip the dishes, and make your lunch tomorrow, people. You’re stuck in a glue movie so start popping corn and pouring Pepsis because you ain’t going anywhere.

Now, I was chilling in my friend Nick and Julie’s basement apartment the other night when we started chatting about glue movies. After I spent five minutes spilling potato chip crumbs all over my T-shirt while describing Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell’s on field chemistry, Nick started up a rant of his own.

“You know, you would think my glue movie would be The Usual Suspects,” he began. “I can pick it up anywhere and knowing the twist makes every scene more interesting. Like, what’s true, what’s made up? I’ve seen it twenty times and I still don’t know. But then again, it’s completely unwatchable when edited for television. In the police line-up scene they say something like ‘Hand me the keys, you giant cockroach.‘ It’s awful. So… now that I think about it my glue movie is definitely Heat. Long movie, understated performance by Deniro, the best bank robbing scene in history, and enough relationship stuff so Julie gets into it.”

It was a good argument and Nick was satisfied with it. He took a long swig of his drink and nodded his head a little bit as he came to terms with his glue movie selection. Then I performed a classy Thumb & Index Finger Pre-Lick, we let a minute pass in silence, and Julie went off like a rocket:

“My movie is definitely The Mighty Ducks 2,” she started, excitedly. Nick and I looked at each other but she ramped up. “Look, I’m smiling just thinking about it. I had a crush on all the boys from the first movie, but I can only responsibly love them closer to the legal age of consent. Plus, they had a girl on the team and I always dreamed of being that female hero. And I generally love movies with kids because they remind you of actors before they were big. I mean, I loved Joshua Jackson in Dawson’s Creek because of the ducks,” she finished.

Nick shrugged and nodded, I furrowed my eyebrows and gave a dramatic thumbs up, but Julie wasn’t quite done.

“Oh yeah!” she beamed. “And the movie taught me everything I know about hockey which can be summarized in three words: Ducks fly together. This is what I yell whenever Nick’s watching hockey.”

We smiled and laughed because it was clear these movies really do hold a special place in our hearts.

Maybe you’re glued to the screen waiting for the redemption in Shawshank, nervous for the courtroom drama in My Cousin Vinny, or eager for the trip home in Adventures in Babysitting.

But no matter what, watching your glue movie is like hanging out with an old friend who pops by for an unexpected visit. After pouring a drink and settling into your couch dent, the memory pops and nostalgia drops start sparking and sizzling in your brain. Suddenly you’re reminded of drives to the movies in mom’s minivan, crashing on the couch with friends, or sharing an old fave with a new flame.

So stick with your glue movies, everybody.

They’ll be yours forever.

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Coming to America – Easily the funniest movie ever and maybe the only movie that I know ALL the words to.
StepBrothers – Maybe the silliest movie ever
When Harry Met Sally – Best romantic comedy of all time
Goodfellas – Awesomeness
A Little Mermaid – I know all the songs

My glue movies are movies that are guaranteed to make me cry every time. I love a good cry movie, but most of them make me cry one or two times, then it wears off. There are a few that will get me every time though. My Girl and Pay It Forward. It doesn’t matter if I turn it on in the last scenes, I still cry.

I’ve got two glue movies – Back to the Future and Fried Green Tomatoes. Both are tolerable with commercials and don’t have much to cut.

BttF was the one time when my parents would let me and my brother yell “SHIIIIIIIIT!” over the dubbed word when Biff crashed into the manure truck. So it’s actually a novelty to see that movie in its real form.

I have far too many glue movies… but here’s a start…
13 Going on 30
Anything by John Hughes (except Curly Sue)
Legally Blonde
Serendipity
You’ve Got Mail
Love Actually
Four Weddings and a Funeral
It’s a miracle that I ever make it outside at all! :)

Field of Dreams. I own it, I watch it all the time, but every time it’s on TNT or CMT(??? I know, but it is), I have to watch it. And not only do I tear up in the obvious “Catch” scene at the end, but also when the old man talks about when they cleaned out Doc Graham’s office, they found boxes of blue hats he’d never gotten around to giving his wife Alisha. “I bet you didn’t know that…”

I really like this movie.. (Actually, I really like almost all of Matt Damon’s movies).. but while I’m normally a big sap, and get sucked in and teary at at movie’s emotional scenes, for some reason I just don’t get into the “It’s not your fault” scene. It just doesn’t ring true for me.

Just realized I hadn’t added a movie of my own. Yesterday, my wife and I got sucked into watching almost all of Pretty Woman on TV.

“Big mistake. Big. HUGE!”

I turned it off just before Jason Alexander’s character is a total jerk to her, and then the movie goes off the rails until Richard Gere shows up at the end with the flowers in the limo, and climbs up the fire escape.

Sorry, I though that is a positive place for everyone expose its opinion and links that make them feel full and happy. What does my link to do with glu movies? The featuring, the colourful and that was the last post seen and I was wondering to share with all of you that amazing beautiful vision. Sorry again, I never though I would be treated like that in that place. Great disappointment. Please, the master can void my posts, the last I want is to disturb. And sorry for my english, I am naturally spanish speaker.

My apologies as well, gifitting. All types of awesome are obviously welcome here, but it just seemed as if your post was more interested in self-promotion than “sharing the awesome”, as it were.

For example, imagine if a McDonald’s marketing person started posting comments in each thread about how awesome the McChicken Sandwich is (with links to the McChicken website). It would obviously detract a little from the quality of the dialogue about “Glue Movies”, even if in their mind they REALLY did think that the McChicken is an above average poultry-based sandwich product.

Hopefully this experience didn’t deter you from coming back here!

Btw: You never told us what your favorite Glue Movie is! Let us know! :)

Thanks, I understand the rules now!!! I never really meant to akt either look like a spammer! The reason of my appearance in that blog is because in an spanish newspaper wroten an interesting promotion about that blog and book and they suggest us to come there to share with all of you our awesome moments, that´s all. I wrote it on the last post I didn´t know the rules. Thanks again, regards

omg ALL of the movies people have listed here are awesome!!!!!!! I love A League of Their Own – SO GOOD! Also, anytime a classic Disney film comes on, I have to watch it. It’s such a rare occurence for the good Disney movies to be on TV.

How are there 150 comments on here and not ONE person mentions “Goonies”?! I swear, no matter the time of day or what I’m doing, I will drop everything to watch it. My dad has the same handicap. There’s just something about those kids that gets me every time.

I get almost as sucked in with Princess Bride, Willy Wonka, Dazed and Confused, Spaceballs, and lots of the other ones that have already been mentioned. But Goonies is the clincher…

Charlie: “And what were you doing up there, Lieutenant?”
Maverick: “Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. Giving him the bird.”
Goose: “You know, the finger!”
Charlie: “Yes, I know the finger.”
Goose: “I’m sorry, I hate it when it does that!”

Great post! I was just thinking about this the other day as I watched National Treasure! My other Glue Movies would definitely be The Sandlot and Hocus Pocus, in fact, any one of the those movies they show on the Disney Channel at Halloween I can’t help but sit down and watch :)

My true-glue movie is Home for the Holidays with Holly Hunter and Robert Downey, Jr. Every single moment of that movie is funny and sad and awesome. However, it is a rare Thanksgiving movie, and is usually not on the rest of the year.

Lately, I have been catching Hamlet 2, which I thought was going to be completely offensive, but instead it is a spectacular, amazing and awesome story.

Some of my glue movies that have already been mentioned:
The Goonies
The Notebook
Any of the Lord of the Rings movies
Pretty Woman
The Breakfast Club
The Parent Trap (either version)
The Wedding Planner
Armageddon (“Someday, when you’re all growed up”)
Independence Day (“I have GOT to get me one of these!”)
Back to the Future series
Love Actually
Almost any Disney or Pixar movie.

Others that haven’t:
Annie (the old version)
The Sound of Music
Any Pirates of the Caribbean movie
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Sweet Home Alabama
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Knight’s Tale
Pretty in Pink
King Kong (the new one)
Any of the Jurassic Park movies (there’s just something that always sucks me in)

and my favorite all time movie, that I will watch any time that it is on tv (and I own it) and can recite almost line for line….
The Princess Bride!!

Ah I have so many! But one in particular is The Wizard of Oz. I am obsessed when that movie comes on! That and School of Rock, and The Parent Trap (both old & new). Man I love when I’m flipping through the channels and nothing looks good and then BAM one of my old favorites comes on :)

I’d say my Glue Movie is definitely Pirates of the Carabbean! It has everything, heroines, comedy, action, adventure, a little horror? I mean, it has a bunch of walking-skeletons in the near end! I think it is the awesomest movie ever. But I still haven’t seen the sequels. :(